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From: Peter Abbott <p.abbott@ASTON.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: Grid layout
Status: R


I am aware that TeX places boxes on the page so that aligned baselines
is feasible, and as another writer said in the days of hot lead type in
columns was aligned.

My problem stems from the use of images via the picture environment in
LaTeX using multicol with 2 columns. What I would like is an easy way
to make sure the picture allowance was a multiple of lines.

I have a parameter for the height of the picture box say 50mm and need that
to be increased by an amount to make it a multiple of baseline. My text is
set as 9 on 9.67 so the amounts to be added are small. When I look at the
final output adjacent columns can be just slightly out of line.

I have spent some time making sure that margins are correct so that back to
back pages are aligned. For my present work the paper is thick enough but when
I have recourse to thinner paper I have problems of the text not being
correctly aligned giveing a shadow.

Peter
>
>Rolf Lindgren writes:
>
>> As far as I can tell, aligned baselines stems from old mechanical
>> typographical devices where it was difficult _not_ to get aligned
>> baselines because type was set to a grid, and illustrations were set
>> to fit into a series of blank lines.